Word: gaullists
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...also openly repudiated the majority M.R.P., the party which had backed him until his resignation from the presidency last January. The beautiful marriage of De Gaulle and the M.R.P. seemed to have gone permanently on the rocks. But he coyly refrained from betrothing himself publicly to the growing Gaullist Union, headed by René Capitant, which had announced that it would fight the constitution, put up candidates in the next elections...
Direction committees of France's three major parties scurried into conference. Burly Communist Leader Jacques Duclos made a frantic appeal to reluctant Socialists for left-wing unity. Leaders of the M.R.P., which stood to lose the most members to the new Gaullist party, hastened to make further changes in the constitution to appease waverers. Then the Assembly adopted the draft constitution on its first reading. Now it was up to the people...
...French political marriages were breaking up. At the town hall of Asnières, a Paris suburb, Léopold Senghor, deputy from French West Africa, and Mlle. Ginette Eboué solemnized another kind of Gaullist Union (see cut). Mlle. Eboué is the daughter of the first African to espouse General de Gaulle's cause in the Lake Chad region...
...year ago Dewavrin (nom de guerre: Colonel Passy) was one of the most powerful and honored figures in France, one of the closest confidants of its President Charles de Gaulle. He had capped a brilliant career as chief of the Gaullist Intelligence Service by dramatically parachuting into Brittany to command French resistance forces at the moment of Patton's breakthrough...
...took a different view: the Communists had expected to win last May's referendum and make heavy gains in the succeeding elections. Before taking over key ministries in the Government, they wanted to strip De Gaulle of his most dangerous lieutenant and thereby prevent the possibility of a Gaullist coup d'état to overthrow a Communist-dominated Government. Dewavrin's imprisonment was the Communist price for maintaining shaky tripartite unity in President Félix Gouin's Government...